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22-Year-Old Oregon Man Charged With Selling DDoS Attacks Using Mirai Variant
Federal prosecutors have charged Oregon man Ethan Foltz, 22, with administering an on-demand service for disrupting websites called "Rapper Bot." Resulting distributed-denial-of-service attacks disrupted DeepSeek and X, as well as the U.S. Department of Defense, which is leading the investigation.

Tulsi Gabbard Takes Credit After Apparent British Reversal of Backdoor Request
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the United Kingdom has apparently reversed course on a demand for Apple to provide the government with a backdoor into its advanced iCloud encrypted protections following growing criticism from U.S. lawmakers and privacy advocates.

How Autonomous AI Systems Are Moving Beyond Hype and Why CIOs Can't Ignore Them
Agentic AI is moving from concept to capability, bridging the gap between reactive tools and enterprise-scale autonomy. With the stack maturing fast, CIOs face a choice: lead the shift or risk being left behind.

Maximum Validity of Public TLS Certificates Will Drop From 398 Days to Just 47 Days
The future of managing digital certificates is already here - it's just not evenly distributed yet. With the public TLS certificate validity period set to drop to just 47 days, as well as the need to migrate to quantum-safe encryption, experts see automation as key to achieving crypto agility.

Common Weaknesses Healthcare Providers Must Overcome to Avoid Regulators' Wrath
Regulators have long pushed HIPAA-regulated providers to ensure their enterprise-wide security risk analysis is comprehensive and timely, so they can identify security issues before they become data breaches. Why do so many organizations struggle with this top HIPAA priority?

CEO Matthew Prince: Unchecked Scraping Could Undermine the Internet's Economic Model
With 20% of the web behind its platform, Cloudflare will now block AI web crawlers from scraping monetized content by default. CEO Matthew Prince says the company's policy gives all users, even on the free plan, control over AI bot access and protects the incentives for content creation.

Healthplex, Part of UnitedHealth Group, Lacked MFA on Compromised Email Account
New York State has fined a dental plan administrator owned by UnitedHealth Group $2 million for failing to protect data with multifactor authentication and other issues related to a phishing breach that affected 90,000 people. It's the state's second fine against Healthplex for the same breach.

Settlement Includes Corrective Action Plan Focused on Improving Risk Analysis
An investigation into a ransomware breach reported in 2020 as affecting the protected personal information of 170,000 people led to a $175,000 fine against a certified public accounting and consulting firm. Regulators also required the company to implement a corrective action plan in the settlement.

Fraud Expert Trace Fooshee on Regulatory Steps Needed to Curb Payment Scams
While the U.K. and Australia have mobilized multiple sectors to tackle payment scams, the United States faces complex hurdles. The U.S. can't replicate other regulatory models but it can pursue targeted actions such as regulating scam-prone ad platforms and creating a central fraud-fighting agency.

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Centers Connected to RADIUS Left Vulnerable
Networking equipment giant Cisco warned firewall customers to patch after discovering a maximum-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated hackers to commandeer the server. The flaw rates a maximum score of 10 on the CVSS system.

Support Portals Offline as Ransomware Gang Claims It Stole Data
British-based multinational telecom Colt Technology Services said a "cyber incident" is responsible for days-long disruptions to its customer portal and support services. The WarLock ransomware operation took responsibility for the hack, asserting it stole "1 million documents."

Recent advisories from U.S. federal authorities on vulnerabilities in certain operational technology devices underscore the potential security risks that many healthcare providers frequently underestimate, said Sila Özeren, a security research engineer at Picus Security.

Schellman CEO Avani Desai on Balancing Innovation and Compliance in Uncertain Market
The Trump administration’s AI action plan signals a major deregulatory shift, setting up a patchwork of state regulations on AI deployments. Company policies must be “flexible enough to meet the strictest state without rewriting them every few months," said Avani Desai, CEO, Schellman.

Space Policy and Tech Head Paul Liias on Dealing With Satellite Vulnerabilities
A major disruption of civil and military satellites could cause chaos on the ground to communications, navigation and other vital services. But the threats don't just come from missiles. They also comes from hackers who could exploit numerous vulnerabilities, said Estonia's Paul Liias.

Cyfinoid's Shrivastava Calls for Greater Visibility Over Software Security Risks
Software supply chain security is all too often viewed through a narrow lens, focused mostly on code dependencies and Software Bill of Materials. But the devil remains in the details and risks can emerge from overlooked areas, said Anant Shrivastava, founder and chief researcher at Cyfinoid.

Researchers Say AI Bots Blur Lines Between Identity, Consent and Cyber Defense
As generative AI programs continue to evolve, they are introducing new threats to the modern workplace. Digital twins, once confined to industrial systems, now enable hyper-realistic copies of actual employees to mimic vocal patterns, behaviors and even pick up on decision-making trends.